Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in
defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as …

So‐called nudge policies utilize insights from behavioral science to achieve policy
outcomes. Nudge policies try to improve people's decisions by changing the ways options …

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and
disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself as a voice of positivity.”–New York …

Large language models (LLMs) are currently at the forefront of intertwining AI systems with
human communication and everyday life. Due to rapid technological advances and their …

We design a battery of semantic illusions and cognitive reflection tests, aimed to elicit
intuitive yet erroneous responses. We administer these tasks, traditionally used to study …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

Definition Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the novel severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which appeared in late 2019 …

Building on pragmatism, we advance an entrepreneur-as-scientist perspective and depict
entrepreneurs as engaging in causally inferential action by forming beliefs, testing these …

Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

Formal models are commonly used in natural resource management (NRM) to study human-
environment interactions and inform policy making. In the majority of applications, human …